Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5y ago
Home prices around where I am (LCOL area in MI) are creeping up, but not to the absurd degree they are in actually desirable places to live. That said, anywhere that's decent to live is getting slammed. For instance, sticking to MI, Gr
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Y'all never banned me and I was definitely an articulate, immature asshole with a victim complex. I'm REALLY glad I don't remember my username from my high school years.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I cannot over-emphasize how utterly demoralizing things like this are to those children. The kids who are smart enough to do real work are also smart enough to figure out that nobody will care. I was so discouraged by finding out the other
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Consumer Reports is the big one here. I find things like CR or choice really good if your needs align with the standard consumer's. One example is I'd probably recommend you look at office chair recs from them if you were a male b
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I don't think it's too niche, I think they're just American. A Canadian/Indian/EU-based Google probably would've ended up with multi-lingual support, whereas a China/UK based one probably wouldn't hav
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yes, hence why I'd want an option for language agnostic results. It would be a terrible default. There are cases when I'd even like REGION agnostic results, or least ones not bound by national boundaries. For example, I have an
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by Mezzie 5y ago
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
908.
by Mezzie 5y ago
Honestly, if we're going to go old school, I vote Dogpile. Let's start pitting the searches against each other again.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Multi-lingual search results in general; Google (and FB) just for some reason cannot comprehend that someone might have reasons to search in multiple languages or even regions. For instance, I at one point was an editor/fact-checker fo
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by Mezzie 5y ago
At the minimum. A truly thoughtful search requires an understanding of: - What you're searching for, which as you mention means terminology and knowing that information exists. (If you don't know that there's a country called
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by Mezzie 5y ago
lol that video was what started my can opener hunt. Also that YT is why I now have a microwave and a toaster on my 'things to hunt down' list.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Depends on what I'm looking for. If it's something small (under like 20 bucks for me, substitute whatever for your comfort level), I don't even bother. I just go to Target and pick up the 2nd or 3rd cheapest whatever. Now if
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It's very interesting to me as somebody's who's been making and burning Reddit accounts since before the Digg implosion. 15 years ago, I trusted what I saw on Reddit when it came to things like products: If I came across a po
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> Perhaps if Google didn't try to fix things for people, they would be more thoughtful with their searches. As someone who's been a public librarian, I can tell you that is not how people work.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> For a while they just pushed me to get any job I could. I worked in a call centre (horrible), door to door sales (more horrible), a butcher in supermarket (slightly horrible), working in the NHS (terrible pay, lovely people). This is
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, I was on the track to do what you did, and then I got multiple sclerosis during my last semester of graduate school. Disability is a major player in my own personal negative patterns: My MS came out of nowhere, I can't make good
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> You are offered full-time hours! Yes! Except because you hit the boundaries/limits/edge cases in the legislation, your net income will only increase by $30 a week, because your income tested supplementary assistances will dec
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I had a website that was up when I was 6 that an adult had never touched. It was shit, but it existed, and I understood the difference between 'designing' for paper (I also liked drawing) and a website. I thought it was interestin
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by Mezzie 5y ago
That's deliberate. It's cheaper. If they don't let their customer service agents have any autonomy, then they don't have to hire for things like 'judgement' and can just throw warm bodies in a chair, which make
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> I don't really understand people staying in abusive job situations like this. I'm working to get out of a job that turned into this once our (lovely) manager bailed and exposed our team to the incompetence of our current lead
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by Mezzie 5y ago
For some reason I'd always been under the impression that the 'F' in 'TFA' was a different word. This makes so many exchanges less hostile in retrospect. Oops.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
She's a better web designer than I was at 6! Did she design it as a website? It's interesting that she went with drawings/a piece of paper as the default presentation. (Assuming that was her decision).
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Nicotine? God, modafinil + other stimulants is a bad time for me.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm doing/have done this! I took my current job (in communications) in order to get better at outreach, marketing, etc. for when I work for myself since that's what I was the weakest at as a freelancer. I'm also interest
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, this is a major omission and it is also why you see so many functional addicts who don't think they have a problem. Also it means that who is considered an 'addict' is partially socially constructed: Some people have jo
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by Mezzie 5y ago
My ancedotal evidence says yes. I've never had a porn problem (I'm a homosexual female, I'm not sure there's enough material for me to sustain a porn problem...), but I've had other psychological addictions and on
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I agree it's a maturity thing, but I wouldn't say the cool technology 'inevitably turns out to be janky and annoying and half-finished.' I think it's more that the cool technology is developed for a certain use-case
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I saw this coming and knew I'd need some things when the stimuli hit, so I bought a computer and some other stuff I needed. It extended me a little more than I would have liked, but I have to admit it was the right call. I still would
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Depends on who you're trying to hack/hide from. If I'm hiding from governments, political parties, or NGOs, then I might do something like you suggested, but since the greatest danger to hackers in terms of getting caught is
930.
by Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, you'd have to prepare for it by doing things like starting to read articles about the benefits of written communication, then moving on to starting to do other things by mail, and then start using it for personal correspondence.

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